Amazing Spring Color from 25+ Japanese Maples. Garden Tour of my Japanese Maple Collection.

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[Music] it’s midmay and our Japanese maples are all leafed out so today we’re going to do our 2025 Japanese maple garden [Music] tour hi it’s Steph welcome back to my garden our maples are looking really beautiful at the moment but in truth their peak spring color was about a week ago but it is really difficult to time these garden tours uh because of the weather we’ve had lots of rain and wind in fact it just finished raining you can see that the floor is wet and also the trees unfurl at different times but today we’re going to go through and look at each of our trees as well as some of the plantings we have in this area we’ll start here on this patio that we have that leads you into our Japanese maple garden and last season I planted these planters here these are corn and steel planters with some bamboo now this bamboo is a clumping variety but to be on the safe side I did want to put them in planters because bamboo has a reputation of being a bit invasive it kind of runs off especially the running type but this one being a clumping type is supposed to be more well behaved the variety is called Fergizia Rufa and you can see that it’s actually starting to put on a little bit more height which I’m happy about because I wanted it to cover some of this wall on the shed and so maybe in the next couple of years it might get a bit further up which would be wonderful but I really love the way it looks it provides a little bit of a zen feel to this area and right behind me is an orange dream and this is one of the first maples to leaf out in our garden we actually have three they’re really early and the orange dream is one of them now it did have a more orangey foliage maybe about two weeks ago and now it’s going into more of its summer color which is a chartreuse kind of yellow so I’m thinking it probably should have been called a yellow dream and you can see that the margins still have a little bit of that orangey red coloring but it is also a really really pretty tree as it grows my plan is to limb it up so that it can kind of make a canopy over this bench which I think will be really nice and we have a couple of potted trees and this one here is the dancing peacock and this is a fall stunner it has the most vibrant red color it’s just so gorgeous so this one will eventually find its way onto the landscape but currently we’re growing it in a pot and it’s been really happy right beside it we have an it’s either an autumn moon or a moonrise which they’re very similar they’re both part of the Sherasawam Japanese maples which have the very large full moon leaf style and this beauty which was one of the first ones that I picked out because it has a bit of a pink hue in the spring and this one is called Shiraas but it also goes by the name Geisha’s Gone Wild and you can see that it has a bit of a pink outer margin or edging and a deep maroon center the leaves are a bit smaller but it has a really airy feel now a couple of weeks ago when we were in this area I had shown you that these planters that we did up last season um the perennials in them had started to return first was the hakonicloa or the Japanese forest grass then the hookeras started to fill in and the ferns were a little bit behind but now they have started to return and these are some ghost ferns and they’re looking really beautiful and as we head into our path on either side of the steps I have this really pretty evergreen which is a fire chief arborvite and it’s really interesting because in the winter it has a bronze color and then as we head into the spring and summer it’ll get a really beautiful shade of like a limey chartreuse green just really pretty and all of the new growth has orange tips so pretty soon we’ll go through and prune it into a nice tight ball to keep it size controlled but it does make a really pretty accent on either side of the steps this maple which we’re also still growing in a pot until we find a more permanent space in the landscape is called pastel and this is a newer one to our collection in the last two seasons or so it started off a really beautiful peach color then it goes a little bit like this green cream color you can see that there’s some reticulation in it so it’s very similar to what you see in the ghost series for maples and then it will turn this shade of red almost like a red orange very beautiful now mixed with our maples we have a number of conifers this is another one that I really love you can see how it has more of a wide shape versus being too tall and this is a Golden Duchess hemlock and I purchased this maybe about 3 to four about 3 years ago now I would say and it is looking beautiful putting on its spring growth and I think it’s just in the perfect spot in this area and here is a maple that I think every collection should have it is the Macawa yatsubusa and what I love about it is that it has this really interesting stacked effect when it first leaves out in the spring it has a limey green foliage a really bright green new growth but it just has a really beautiful shape and depending on what light conditions you have yours in um they even get some interesting fall color as well we’ll talk about this tree in a little bit but because I’m kind of in a fork in the road I’m going to do this section first and then we’ll go ahead and continue with that area so here in this corner I planted another conifer this is a weeping blue spruce and I love these so much that I have one here and one in one of my front borders and I just think it adds a really nice uh stately piece in this corner because of its height and that it’s narrow i just really love the structure it provides in this area in front of it I planted a contrasting hakanoa or Japanese forest grass this is the all gold variety and it adds a nice bright spot as you come around the corner now in here there were no plants but because this was the shadiest area I started planting some shade plants here first and as you can see they’ve really filled out so this spot does need some editing and that’s how it so often goes in gardening you first plant some things and then you decide that maybe you want to move stuff around because they’ve grown too large and are covering other perennials which is what’s happening here my lung wart has just bloomed beautifully and I found my first hummingbird in the season um here near these pulmonaria or lung wart so they’re a really pollinator attracting plant and have really beautiful foliage so now as these blooms fade the foliage will get really large in fact it’s covering some of my hooka that I have in this area i also planted some aliums which are just getting ready to bloom this is the Mount Everest alium they have a really large white bloom that is going to open up in the next week or so i have some carrots in the front here which I’m going to dig up and move to a new area that we’re planting in the garden that I’ll share with you soon so definitely some editing here and this is another conifer which is really interesting this is an Eley conifer called a chairman hanogi it’s got a really cool contorted shape and it stays really compact only about 1 to 2 feet in uh width and about 3 to four feet in height over a long period of time we’re talking upward of 10 years for it to get to that size so really slow growing some more grasses and some ladies mantle which will look really beautiful as it blooms at some point towards June with these sprays of chartreuse flowers that look like a baby’s breath and it just spills over the path and I really love it now this tree is the very first one in our garden to leaf out and this is the catsura now there are catsaura trees and cats Japanese maples which is what this happens to be and it has the most beautiful fiery color in the spring when it emerges it’s like orange and red and yellow and now it’s getting more of its summer color which is a bit of a chartreuse green color but this tree has put on quite a bit of size over the last couple of years this has only been planted here I want to say this is the fourth season um would you say that’s right George yeah and it is taller than us now and it has just put on a ton of growth so I would say that this is a really fast grower and here on the other side of the path this is the autumn moon and this is another one of the sherasawum variety trees and it has again that really large beautiful leaf and you can see that this one has a bit of a yellow green coloring with some orange on the tops of the leaves where the sun hits it’s where it has the most orange color which is what gives it this really interesting kind of layered um color effect well we’re editing our video and it’s been 3 days since we filmed and the past 3 days have been really sunny so this autumn moon has really come into its own it is looking like the most beautiful shade of coral on the top of the leaves where the sun is hitting it and it just looks amazing and even the aradne right behind it is also taking on a bit of a coral color with the last three days of sunshine so we just had to come out here and show this to you because they are just so beautiful and it just goes to show how it’s so incredibly difficult to time these tours because they are constantly changing in the spring okay back to the video again i have a drift of ladies mantle under here to match the other side of the path i try to repeat things on both sides to keep to keep everything balanced now I have some other cool plantings in this area and that’s what I’m working on i’m trying to add more shade part shade plants and this is one of my favorite hookas in the front there that is the caramel hooka now I have had a difficult time growing hookas and I think many of you might be able to relate to that so let me know in the comments but I find that they sometimes get smaller uh year after year instead of getting larger so um it’s something I’m still working on because I really love them and they make a beautiful foliage accent in shadier corners so I actually had to purchase another of these um I think it’s called the wild primo black pearl hookas to match that one because I lost the one in this corner and you can see how beautiful this dark foliage is and I really love it mixed with this caramel hooka i think they make a beautiful contrast and so I have decided to add another one here so that I have a grouping of hooka all around this really pretty haninoi this is a cardono or cardalo haninoi cyprus oh yes uh this is one of my husband George’s favorite plants in the garden this is the uh Godzilla fern and it is a stunner now when ferns first emerge they look like this they have like these little curly fronds and then they open up and take on this color which is just gorgeous this is a pretty large one too hence the name Godzilla it gets to be about 30 to 36 in tall and wide so I have a single planted here to fill out this space and this tree here has quickly become another favorite this is the Ariadne maple and it has the most beautiful orange color like a burnt orange and uh then it will go a bit green in the summer and then it will turn another shade of gorgeous orange in the fall so it goes orange green orange so that is what’s really interesting about these trees is they’re always changing throughout the seasons our collection happens to be more showy in spring but look at this isn’t that stunning this is another one that has that reticulation that would almost make it look like it belongs in the ghost series now speaking of the ghost series we’re going to come around here and start on this path this is the sister ghost and what drew me to this one was its bright yellow spring color look at this it is stunning now this one pretty much stays this color throughout the summer it might get a little bit more muted than it is in the spring but it ultimately does keep kind of a a yellow green coloring to it which is really pretty and such a beautiful contrast against this red beauty right here this is a fire glow and we liked it so much that we actually also have two of these uh and we tend to do that with some of our trees if we like it we end up getting a duplicate now it has also put on quite a bit of height this year so I think it’s really happy in this spot and this is an Acer palmatum and this is what the leaves look like i’m going to take a leaf with us so that we can compare it to a couple of the other red maples that I have in the garden because I often get asked which is the brightest red maple and that can really be dependent on the type of maple as well as where you have it planted in your garden and the light conditions it gets but in general most of the red maples have sort of a burgundy hue to them like the blood blood good and the emperor 1 and this fireglow actually gets its name because the foliage when the sun comes through it has more of a fiery red color which is really deep and beautiful right behind the fire globe we recently planted another really pretty conifer and this is the Hartzman blue atlas cedar and it’s an Eley conifer and I think it was the perfect touch for this corner of this garden again some more Hakonoa Japanese forest grass this one is the areola which is the one I have the most of it’s got a variegation on the leaves of green and yellow oh and that one yes this is an adorable conifer this one is called Tom Thumb i actually still have the tag so let me show that to you there it is and it is a tiny little guy and this one will I think ultimately get somewhere around the 2 by two size range kind of in a neat little mound and you can see that it has all of its new spring growth on the tips which is really pretty in this corner we have another Sherasawam maple and this one is called Jordan and it has the most beautiful yellow green chartreuse leaves it’s almost limey i mean there are so many adjectives I can use to describe the brightness of this tree but it is gorgeous now this one and the orium are very similar and we have one of those in the garden as well that we’ll get to now underneath again I repeated a Japanese forest grass i have one on either side originally this is where our path ended and then we extended it a little bit further out because I told George that we would eventually need more space to plant things and as plants grow you need the room so I might just leave them there and over time add some more along the edge which I think will frame the corners nicely but just this week we actually planted another conifer in this area you might recall that in this spot I had a Chinese fringe flower planted a Laura pedum and it was a dwarf version and it was here for two seasons and we did cover it over the winter because it’s only marginally hearty here in my zone 6B7A and it survived the winter last year but for some reason this year our winter was a little bit wonky we had some real cold temperatures not a ton of snow but we lost a lot of plants and that was one of them that didn’t come back so I used it as an opportunity to replace it with a beautiful conifer and this here is an Eley conifer that is part of their true dwarf collection and this is a mug pine and the variety is called Kousini Mugo Pine now this one grows in a globe shape and it has a dwarf growth habit of only 2 to 4 in of growth per year and its garden size in 10 years will be 3 feet tall by 3 ft wide which is nice and round and compact and it’s hardy down to -50° F which is really hardy and it’s a full sun shrub and it will get just enough sun here to keep it happy but I think this is a really pretty shrub with a nice shape for this spot now you can see coming up the path that I have a few of these mesh waste baskets and that is because last year something was eating my Japanese painted ferns the bunnies are bunny man they are just starting to unfurl and put on some size and I was worried that the bunnies which I I’m suspect it was the bunnies um will come through and eat them so rather than forget to spray them and worry about them I am just using these Dollar Tree mesh waste baskets that are black so they kind of blend into the background to protect my plants it’s actually one of my garden hacks that I’ve showed on my garden hacks video it’s something I’ve been doing for years and it’s really effective if it gets windy you can place a rock on here so that they don’t get knocked over you can also use a landscape pin since there’s holes in the basket to pin them down but you can see that I’ve placed some more hookah here and this is the Dolce Wild Berry hooka by Proven Wyinners which is also a really pretty shade of like a deep purple color and I think that they will look really pretty interplanted with this fern uh because I really like to play with different colors and textures i think this is going to make a really nice combination along the path here so I will be working on planting those and some other shade plants soon and I’ll be sure to share that with you i have some eto pianies that are getting ready to bloom this one here is the Julia rose um it might be getting a little bit too much shade so it’s possible that this will need to be moved because I don’t see any buds on it it’s also a fairly new plant because it was started from bare root so sometimes bare root peies take a couple of years before they actually uh put on some blooms so as you can see I have quite a few hookaras to go through and plant pretty soon um but you can see I have another basket here and this is actually an oakleaf hydrangeanger that I bought as a small 4-in can a couple of years ago and it has not put on any significant size because the deer keep eating it so I had to cover it and you can see I’m using a rock to weight it down and what’s pretty about that one it’s called Little Honey is that it has this bright yellow chartreuse foliage um which you can see has its spring color and it’s really pretty but maybe someday it’ll get large enough to enjoy and the deer might leave it alone but this conifer is a real beauty and this is an oriental spruce now this is the regular large variety and it might be a controversial topic in our garden because George is always worried about what’s going to happen when it gets too big but I’m not that worried about it because you can see it has a very kind of airy growth habit and it’s super slow growing we’ve had it here for I want to say this is the fourth season perhaps and it’s only grown a little bit but of course there’s the first year they sleep second year they creep and third year they leap so we’re just waiting for that leap to happen um and if it goes slow it’s fine by me because I really love this conifer i actually just recently planted a small version or a dwarf version of this oriental spruce called the Firefly and I’ll be sharing that in a video real soon this here is another really cute conifer and this is the Korean icebreaker and it has a really interesting kind of frosted color to it also stays really compact grows in a round habit and slow growing now here is another one of the ghost series maples we have three of them in total in our garden we’ve looked at the sister ghost and this is purple ghost now this has a pretty bright red for spring color you can see here that it also has that reticulation in it which is the signature look of the ghost series maples and just comparing it to the fireglow very similar in color so it’s more of a burgundy but when the sun comes through the the leaves they look nice and bright now this will darken up the purple ghost does get more of a deep maroon um as we head into the summer so it has the brightest color in the spring and right here is the beautiful eto pini scrumdilumptious that we planted just this season this is an Eley Etopini and this one is loaded with buds look at this so many buds now this was a plant it was a more mature plant so we’re going to get blooms from it a lot sooner but what I really love about the eto pianies is that they are a lot more sturdy than the herbaceous pianies they’re actually a cross between the herbaceous and the tree peie you can see how nice and sturdy these stems are and there is the name if you’re interested it is a 3×3 size pie so nice tight compact rounded habit the spring color on this was beautiful it was like shades of red this is a pine another conifer that we added last fall and it is called the Goldilocks yes it is Goldilocks how do you remember that easy to remember um pinus parflora Goldilocks and it’s real pretty um it also has these really cool cones in the spring that maybe George can come in on so I can show you uh it has its candle growth you can see here look at that those are the spring cones so there’s a lot of interesting features in conifers in the spring as well and living here in the northeast they’re such an important part of our landscape because in the winter months when there are no um perennials to look at because everything is dormant we still have a lot of structure and pretty things to look at on in our garden with the use of conifers i’m just going to pause this garden tour for 30 seconds to give anyone who might be a newer viewer to our channel a little background on this area it wasn’t too long ago that this used to just be grass and it had our children’s playset on it and over the last four years George and I worked to transform this into this Japanese maple garden it started with me gifting George a handful of maples and then we started planting them up with some other plantings and then it turned into having a path that George worked on and even installed a French drain and it is what you see today so as of the last year it’s been done and we just keep adding a few shade plants here and there but we really love the way that it turned out and we have a video that shows the whole 2-year process of this garden that I’ll link below for anyone who’s interested to check it out so this was one that George picked out um was it last it was the season before last I believe or was it last year it starts to become a blur as our collection grows but this is a real pretty one so we mentioned at the beginning of the video that there are three maples that are the first to leaf out in our garden the catsaura the orange dream and this golden falls and this Golden Falls almost looks identical to the catsura when it leaves out it has the same coloring of the orange and red and yellow and now it has this really pretty chartreuse coloring now this one is a weeping type maple or cascading which is really pretty and looks especially beautiful if you plant it near like a um a retaining wall or even over a pond um it could make a really pretty feature maple you can see the leaves are almost like a ground cover yes speaking of a ground cover I think these make a beautiful contrast this is lambium also known as dead nettle and it will sporadically bloom like this throughout the whole season but what I really love about it is this really gorgeous silvery foliage that makes a really pretty ground cover the use of ground covers are huge for me here in my garden and I really love them because they will over time spread to cover more ground which means I will have to mulch less so they create a living mulch this is a type of auga or bugle weed that one is called the burgundy glow has a really pretty foliage um and now it blooms in the spring with these purple spike type flowers so if you don’t use ground covers in your garden I highly recommend them i actually have a whole video on ground covers that I made last season that I can link below for you to check out but let’s go look at another maple so this maple here is the one that we find to be the most red in our garden this spring and we just added this planted it here in the fall this is a Twambble Red Sentinel and what’s really interesting about this maple is it does have a little a little bit of a smaller leaf but it is a columnar growth habit so most of the ones that we’ve looked at within that area there were tree form like larger trees then we looked at the golden falls which has a cascading habit and this one has a more columnar growth habit now I have a friend Anuinette which we did a garden tour Japanese maple garden tour in her garden about two years ago now and she told me that this was one of her favorite trees because it held on to its foliage the longest it was the last tree in her garden to lose its leaves in the fall and it also has this really vibrant fall red color so I knew that I had to have one in our garden and we picked one up last fall and planted it here but here’s a comparison on the leaves you can see this is the fireglow which has that uh burgundy red foliage and this is the Twambli’s Red Sentinel we’re bouncing around a little bit but we just came from the Twambli’s Red Sentinel and here we have the Golden Falls and we created this grassy path between our maple garden and this woodland border and I’m actually extending this woodland border all the way down but I want to stop here for a second and just talk about this dogwood well it’s not a maple um I’m a little confused about why it didn’t bloom this year it only bloomed a little bit right here a little cluster of these gorgeous creamy white blooms and they’re really large but nowhere else and I know we had a wonky winter so I’m guessing that maybe it took um some of the buds it zapped the buds but what I really loved about this dogwood this is the celestial shadows is that it has these variegated leaves you can see it has a yellow green on the outer with a dark green in the center and it’s really pretty especially when it has those large blooms but very little blooming this year so let me know how your dog woods are doing but continuing down this path we are extending this bed and we already have a couple of maples planted here this moonrise has been planted for couple of seasons now and this is also a Sherawum maple and it is very similar to our autumn moon now moonrise you can see has those full moon leaves is also this gorgeous yellow green color with this orangey pink where the sun hits the top of the leaf and when they first emerge they are that pinkish color as you can see here but this is a really pretty tree and um if you’re torn between an autumn moon or a moonrise they’re essentially the same tree at least in my opinion they look very very similar and coming from the moonrise you can see that this area is a work in progress i’m going to be planting some hellaore in this space and some other shade plants but right here we have another maple and this is the Skeer’s Broom and when we were looking for a columnar type maple we were between the Skeer’s Broom and the Twamp’s Red Sentinel and when we couldn’t decide between the both of them um we just bought one of each and so now we’re growing this one here in this area and you can see that it’s not quite as bright as the Twamblies but it could be due to the light conditions in this back area we’ll compare the leaf again and you can see that the fire glow being more of a burgundy color is still darker than the Skeers so the Skeers is lighter in color but it’s not quite as bright as the Twambli’s Red Sentinel and in this area we recently created this bed maybe in the last two seasons or so to accommodate a couple more maples and this one here is what I like to call my unicorn maple this is my favorite currently in the collection and this is the amber ghost so this is the third ghost series maple that we have in our garden and right now in the spring it has this kind of like a peach coloring to it and then it goes like a coral color in the in the summer with a bit of orange to it and then in the fall it goes red it is stunning and the color is always changing and what I love about this particular tree is the location that it’s planted in really allows me to enjoy all of the color changes from our bedroom window on the second story so we really get a bird’s eye view of all of the different changes this tree goes through and it’s just a really beautiful one so Amber Ghost is certainly one I think deserves to be in everyone’s collection and I have started to plant some um plants in this area as well so I have an eto pey bartzella in the corner and I planted some Solomon’s seal back here in this corner because the deer really like it in my garden so I thought that if it was closer to the house maybe they’ll leave it alone but this is a variegated variety of Solomon seal and you can actually see that it’s blooming at the moment it gets these little white dangles underneath the leaves along the stem and this cutie is a small conifer called Piscy Aby’s push and I really love it because it has a slow growing dwarf habit it’s mounded and round and look at this really cool spring growth it gets these red colored cones on the tips see that as they age they do go brown but this is the spring color and right next to the pouch I have another type of pine and this is a low glow Japanese red pine and it also has all of its spring candle growth and this one also has a slow growth rate of only 3 to 6 in per year it grows in this globe shape and it gets to be 4 feet high and 6 ft wide over time so in about 10 years so it’ll really fill out this corner here and in front to round out this trio I have a butterball haninoi cyprus and this is also a really slow growing compact rounded shaped evergreen called butterball haninoi cypress i really like its golden color and this one grows about 1 to 3 in per year so really slow growing with a garden size of about 2x two in 10 years time so this is a real cute one it’ll fit into so many different size gardens makes a great shrub to put in a front of a border and this beauty is a bloodg good which is the first tree we had in this area initially it started off as just a tree ring with this bloodg good and naturally over time I decided that the tree ring could be extended outward to house a few more plants some maples some evergreens and some perennials now the bloodg good Japanese maple is the tree that you most often see as a specimen or focal tree in the front landscape of many homes and it has a really pretty um Acer style leaf you can see here in a shade of burgundy and I have three blood goods in the garden this is one of them and then we have two of them in the front yard and they’re just really gorgeous a great way to add red to the landscape and it makes a nice contrast against all of the green and coming around here I’ve planted a couple more perennials i have some metatronaum a dicentra which is a white bleeding heart this variety here and some calammenta in the front so when this dentra dies back it’s going to essentially disappear and that is when the calama and the sedum will start to bloom so I tried to plant everything in the garden in succession so that there’s always something blooming throughout the whole season this is another really pretty conifer and this is a blue conifer called the blue prostrate noble fur and prostrate means that it has a more kind of uh ground cover or low growing spreading habit and this one will also get about 3 ft high 6 ft wide in a 10-year time span only grows 3 to 6 in per year and hardy down to -20° F and the last maple in this bed here is the orium which when we were looking at the Jordan we said was very similar in color they both have this very bright limey green spring color it can be called chartreuse but this is also a full moon or sherasawum type maple and you can always tell that by the shape of these large leaves we have a couple more maples on this side of the garden and this here is my patio bed and I have a yellow one here planted called summer gold so currently you can see that it has this really beautiful yellow coloring and it will just get even more yellow as the season goes on right now it still has a hint of green to it with some pink tips and right here you can see we have another maple this one is called Garnett and this is actually the second maple that we’ve had in this bed because the first one that we had planted here which was a tamakyama had actually died or so we thought and let me I’ll show you in just a minute how that tree turned out but this one you can see is putting on so much growth and looking really beautiful as a focal point here in this bed this is a lace leaf maple and here is that tamaki that was originally planted in the patio bed that we thought had died it had a ton of dieback on it which was some black stems uh it had dropped all of its foliage so we put it in a pot and it was literally hanging out by the trash can and wouldn’t you know that several months later we started to see it push out some buds and we then planted it in this bed and just look at it now it is a beauty and I love the way that it cascades over this retaining wall um when we come down the driveway it’s such a beautiful focal point and I’m just so happy that it actually had the will to live and came back and looked this beautiful the tamakyama is also a lace leaf type maple so it is very similar to the garnett that we have there on our patio bed and while we’re in this area you can see right behind me on the side of the driveway is where we have our two original Japanese maples the bloodg goods we planted those here and they have been growing ever since but the fun thing about those is that every year they drop a couple of seedlings and in the past we’ve dug up the seedlings and put them in pots and they haven’t always made it so this time we’re going with a different approach and we’re letting the seedlings grow where they are and once they put on some size we can try to dig up a couple of them but you can see actually on this wall there is one that is growing that I noticed the other day when I was out here weeding it’s just growing between these two rocks here and I’m pretty sure Oh right here there’s a couple more so there’s one there one right here one right there under the Carl Forester grass and another one right here so there is a ton of them look how cute that is well that brings us to the end of our 2025 Japanese maple garden tour i hope that you’ve enjoyed checking out the varieties that we have in our garden thank you so much for spending your time with us and we’ll catch you in the next one